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📰 Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MAINTAINERS-Intel-March #linux#opensource#intel#kernel

📰 NVIDIA 595.45 Beta Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Updates and Wayland Changes NVIDIA has released the 595.45 beta Linux driver, featuring new Vulkan extensions, Wayland updates, DRI3 1.2 support, and several stability improvements. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-595-45-04-beta-linux-driver-released/ #wayland#linux

📰 NVIDIA 595.45 Beta Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Updates and Wayland Changes NVIDIA has released the 595.45 beta Linux driver, featuring new Vulkan extensions, Wayland updates, DRI3 1.2 support, and several stability improvements. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-595-45-04-beta-linux-driver-released/ #wayland#linux

📰MX Linux 25 may be the best distro for old PCs that nobody talks about If you have an old laptop you're not ready to throw away yet, MX Linux may just be the best way to give it a new life. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/mx-linux-25-may-be-best-distro-old-pcs-nobody-talks-about/ #linux#distro

📰 Linux 7.1 To Prevent Intel NPUs From Being Exhausted By Single Programs The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Restrictions-Linux-71 #linux#intel#kernel

📰 Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next Javelin, their kernel-level anti-cheat solution, might be heading to Linux. 🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/ea-anti-cheat-expansion-plans/ #linux#kernel

📰 AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HSMP-Preps-For-Zen-6-EPYC #amd#linux

📰 Intel Xe Linux Driver Ready With Fix For Brand New Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Laptop This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" powered laptops alongside other products. With Panther Lake running rather well on Linux, the new ThinkPad T14 G7 should be in good standing on Linux and especially with a pending Xe graphics driver fix that is on the way... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ThinkPad-T14-Gen-7-Linux-Xe #linux#intel

📰 Rocky Linux Becomes a KDE Patron Rocky Linux has become a KDE patron, joining organizations like Canonical, Google, and SUSE in supporting the KDE open-source ecosystem. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/rocky-linux-becomes-a-kde-patron/ #linux#opensource#kde

📰 Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel's Mesa OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Xe3P-Start #linux#opensource#intel#kernel

📰 T2 Linux 26.3 Is Out with Fully Reproducible Wayland-Based KDE Plasma Experience T2 Linux SDE 26.3 “Desktop Edition” is now available as a massive update for this highly portable source-based Linux distribution. Here’s what’s new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/t2-linux-26-3-is-out-with-fully-reproducible-wayland-based-kde-plasma-experience #plasma#linux#kde#wayland

📰 systemd 260-rc2 Released With More Changes Last week marked the release of systemd 260-rc1 with a new "mstack" feature, a new "FANCY_NAME" field for os-release, dropping System V service script support, and other changes. Out today is systemd 260-rc2 release with more changes in further working its way toward a stable release for empowering 2026 Linux distributions... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc2 #systemd#linux